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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

2 years

Delighted to announce that @elianalaferrara is joining the HKS faculty starting July 2022. Welcome to HKS, Eliana! Huge win for dev econ @Kennedy_School @gordon_h_hanson @rodrikdani @aikhwaja @rema_nadeem

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

3 years

Saturday was my last day as Coeditor of AEJ: Applied. I am stepping down to serve as the Academic Dean @Kennedy_School . I learned a ton from the AEJ coeditor team and became a better researcher. Here is a final public audit of my 3.5 years at AEJ plus some reflections 1/X

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

8 months

I wrote a piece for @TheAtlantic about the growing perception that college is no longer worth it. It's important for people to know that the value of a BA increases with work experience, peaking at ages 45-55. Tuition (and loans) must be repaid long before that. College seems

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@TheAtlantic

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"The long-term value of a bachelor’s degree is much greater than it initially appears," @ProfDavidDeming writes. "If a college professor or pundit tries to convince you otherwise, ask them what they would choose for their own children."

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

6 years

In the @UpshotNYT this morning – - coverage of an important paper by Raj Chetty and @nhendren82 about race and economic opportunity in the US. Here are my initial thoughts on this landmark piece of research: 1/x

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

5 years

Professional News! Starting July 1st, I will be faculty director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School 1/n

David Deming appointed faculty director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at Harvard...

CAMBRIDGE, MA—Harvard Kennedy School has named David Deming as the faculty director of the School’s Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy. Deming serves as a professor of public policy at the...

www.hks.harvard.edu

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

4 years

New column! Here I make the case that we should make community colleges the centerpiece of a plan to get Americans back to work 1/x

Community Colleges Can Be Engines of Economic Recovery (Published 2020)

With proper funding and innovation, two-year public colleges can handle job training for millions of people.

www.nytimes.com

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

2 years

Incredibly honored to receive the Sherwin Rosen Prize for outstanding contributions to labor economics -

Harvard Kennedy School

@Kennedy_School

2 years

HKS's @ProfDavidDeming has been awarded the Sherwin Rosen Prize for Outstanding Contributions in the Field of Labor Economics by the Society of Labor Economists

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

3 years

Check out my new column today in @nytimes ! I am writing about the importance of making socially valuable data available to the public 1/x

Balancing Privacy With Data Sharing for the Public Good (Published 2021)

Socially valuable data can be combined with standards that safeguard individual privacy, an economist says.

www.nytimes.com

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

5 years

New paper alert! “The School to Prison Pipeline: Long-Run Impacts of School Suspensions on Adult Crime” with @abacherhicks and @billingsecon 1/X

The School to Prison Pipeline: Long-Run Impacts of School Suspensions on Adult Crime

www.nber.org

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

2 months

Proud of my employer for seeing the light. The fairest admissions policy IMO is universal testing + a thumb on the scale for disadvantaged applicants.

Harvard announces return to required testing — Harvard Gazette

Leading researchers cite strong evidence that testing expands opportunity.

news.harvard.edu

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

3 years

@Kennedy_School What I did right 1) I wrote every R&R decision letter like a contract. Do these X things and we will publish. And now here are some suggestions that you should do but don’t have to do. Very straightforward and transparent. 7/X

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

5 years

1.5 years into coediting AEJ: Applied, here is a public audit on my job performance and then some thoughts on being an editor 1/X

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

4 years

New puppy! @doggonomics #EconTwitter

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

6 years

Professional news: I am leaving my post as coeditor at @J_HumanResource and starting this month as a coeditor at AEJ:Applied. Colleagues, please send me your papers! 1/x

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

4 years

New (non-COVID) working paper alert! “Team Players: How Social Skills Improve Group Performance” 1/x

Team Players: How Social Skills Improve Group Performance

www.nber.org

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

5 years

My latest NYT column! – this one is about major choice and STEM careers – 1/1

In the Salary Race, Engineers Sprint but English Majors Endure (Published 2019)

Technical skills taught in college have a short shelf life, while a liberal arts education prepares graduates for jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

www.nytimes.com

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

4 years

I wrote a column about what this grand experiment in online learning means for the future: 1/x

Online Learning Should Return to a Supporting Role (Published 2020)

Winner-take-all economics and cost-cutting may make many in-person lectures obsolete, but the best education continues to be intensive, expensive and done in person.

www.nytimes.com

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

11 months

This morning, Raj Chetty, @john_n_friedman and I released a new paper from @oppinsights about the determinants and causal impacts of admission at highly selective private colleges in the U.S. Here is the paper webpage 1/n

Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Select...

opportunityinsights.org

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

10 months

Thanks to @HarvardMagazine and @MaxKrupnick for covering my @ecmaEditors paper with @benweidmann on how to identify Team Players! Link to the full paper:

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

6 years

Last Friday, I was honored to receive the David Kershaw Award from APPAM. At the conference, I gave a talk entitled “What Does Education Do?” In case you missed it, I am going to TWEETSTORM the main points below 1/N

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

5 years

I wrote a column about free college: 1/4

Tuition-Free College Could Cost Less Than You Think (Published 2019)

Making a tuition-free college education available to everyone who wants one is an immensely worthwhile — and realistic — goal, a Harvard economist says.

www.nytimes.com

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

6 years

In my humble opinion, these results put an empirical nail in the coffin of the “Bell Curve” (care to disagree @charlesmurray ?). Based on these results, I see no plausible argument that racial wage gaps are caused by differences in innate ability. END THREAD 12/12

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

5 years

18 months after starting at AEJ: Applied, my first paper as coeditor is out in print! . It is ”ProPelled: The Effects of Grants on Graduate, Earnings and Welfare” by @JeffDenning , Ben Marx and Lesley Turner 1/x

ProPelled: The Effects of Grants on Graduation, Earnings, and Welfare

(July 2019) - We estimate effects of the Pell Grant—the largest US federal grant for college students—using administrative data from Texas public colleges and a discontinuity in grant generosity for...

www.aeaweb.org

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@ProfDavidDeming

7 years

@dynarski Be question driven. Pick a topic that is interesting no matter what the data turn out to show you.

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@ProfDavidDeming

6 years

ALERT - 🚨 – tweetstorm below about my new paper “STEM Careers and Technological Change”, with @knoray23 - link here ; 1/N

STEM Careers and the Changing Skill Requirements of Work

www.nber.org

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

6 years

Finally, and most importantly – the fact that the black-white income gap is so large and persistent for men - but not for women - argues very strongly against any kind of genetic or innate ability-based explanation for racial wage gaps. 10/x

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

7 years

Excited to begin a new research partnership with Raj Chetty and @John_N_Friedman - 1/x

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@ProfDavidDeming

1 year

Thanks to @tylercowen for mentioning my new paper – “Why Do Wages Grow Faster for Educated Workers?” Of course he nails the point about human capital vs. signaling in dynamic settings 1/x

Why do wages grow faster for educated workers? - Marginal REVOLUTION

The U.S. college wage premium doubles over the life cycle, from 27 percent at age 25 to 60 percent at age 55. Using a panel survey of workers followed through age 60, I show that growth in the...

marginalrevolution.com

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@ProfDavidDeming

3 years

@Kennedy_School 2) I took some chances on promising papers that needed a lot of work, written by junior authors or authors with less of a network. Not for equity reasons, but b/c they are more likely to listen to feedback than established seniors. Those papers all turned out really well 9/X

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@ProfDavidDeming

6 years

2) The black/white income gap is driven entirely by males. I knew this was true to some extent, but the findings are truly shocking. Controlling for family income, black women earn MORE as adults than white women. 4/x

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

6 years

On any given day, 21% of black men born to the lowest-income families are incarcerated. As an otherwise proud American, reading these results filled me with sadness and shame. 6/x

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

2 years

I am delighted to pass the directorship of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy to Sandra Susan Smith! Sandra will be an amazing leader. It has been an honor to serve the MWC community. @InequalityHKS @HarvardMWC @Kennedy_School

Professor Sandra Susan Smith named faculty director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy...

Professor Sandra Susan Smith has been appointed faculty director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy.

www.hks.harvard.edu

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

7 years

With some trepidation, I am going to weigh in on the Seattle minimum wage study (tweetstorm follows) 1/N

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

4 years

This seems like a good time to remind people of my colleague Desmond Ang’s terrific work showing that police violence harms the mental health and economic futures of high school students who live nearby

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

5 years

What does research have to say about the impact of the AK budget cuts? In my paper with Chris Walters we find that a 10 percent budget cut reduces enrollment by 3 percent, BA degrees by ~4.5 percent and certs/AAs by 14 percent 1/4

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@ProfDavidDeming

6 years

I wrote a short overview for the NBER reporter about the current state of research on soft skills in the labor market: Some highlights:

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

3 years

@Kennedy_School Most importantly I avoided a long right tail. 2 of my papers hit 120 days, and 1 hit 133. Everything else was under 120. I’m very proud of that record. I know the pain of long publication delays, especially for those on the tenure track 5/X

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@ProfDavidDeming

3 years

@Kennedy_School In conclusion – editing was a great experience. But the workload became tough to manage and I’m ready for a break. I hope this was helpful for folks out there who want to understand the publishing process! 13/x

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

6 years

Actually - one more thing! - paper here: and we will be discussing these results in my Inequality class today:

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

6 years

My conclusion - while Chetty and Hendren have not *proven* that labor market (rather than pre-market) discrimination against black men is a primary cause of racial inequality, they have pushed it into pole position. It is hard for me to see the facts any other way. 9/x

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

5 years

I’m not saying that students should avoid STEM! But I am saying that we should avoid the impulse to make college curricula narrowly career-focused. College must prepare students for the next 40 years of working life, and for a future that none of us can imagine. 5/5

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

6 years

Black boys and girls obviously have common genes, and they have similar test scores throughout childhood. Yet outcomes are much worse for black men. Chetty and Hendren can’t nail down the exact causes, but they are clearly environmental. 11/x

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

3 years

Really excited to chart the future of work and skills alongside @JosephBFuller @pqblair @rachel_lipson @_ibald . Check out the new virtual home for our collaboration, the Project on Workforce @harvard

Home | Project on Workforce at Harvard

www.pw.hks.harvard.edu

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

4 months

Last week, Yale announced it would start requiring tests again, while U Michigan announced a permanent "test optional" policy. Dartmouth found that "test optional" harms the low-income, first-gen applicants it is intended to help. I explain why in the thread below 1/x

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

5 years

They calculate that the government likely *fully recoups the cost of Pell grant aid* within 10 years because of the fiscal externality generated by earnings gains 5/x

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@ProfDavidDeming

7 years

Fun article about my recent QJE paper on social skills

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@ProfDavidDeming

3 years

New paper! “The Growing Importance of Decision-Making on the Job” 1/x

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@ProfDavidDeming

7 years

Tweetstorm about my new working paper with Chris Walters - - in 3..2…1/N

The Impact of Price Caps and Spending Cuts on U.S. Postsecondary Attainment

www.nber.org

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@ProfDavidDeming

3 years

@Kennedy_School This helps authors but it also helped me, because when the paper came back months later I could just go back to the list. I think it made the time from R&R to publication quicker and less painful for everyone. 8/x

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@ProfDavidDeming

6 years

First, the most important facts: 1) Black children have much higher rates of downward mobility. White children born in the top 20% are almost 5 times more likely to stay there than to drop to the bottom 20%. For black children, both outcomes are equally likely. 2/x

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@ProfDavidDeming

8 months

This is so amazing, congrats @PikaGoldin , you are the best!!!

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

8 months

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Claudia Goldin “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes.” #NobelPrize

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3 years

@Kennedy_School Things I did wrong. 1) I was too harsh in the first few months. Looking back there were some papers near the beginning that I could have treated more generously. Perhaps I was trying to prove myself by imposing high standards. 11/X

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@ProfDavidDeming

6 years

3) After controlling for income, differences in family characteristics – including marriage rates, education and wealth – explain very little of the black-white income gap. 7/x

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@ProfDavidDeming

8 months

Thank you for saying this, @jasonfurman . I agree completely.

Jason Furman

@jasonfurman

8 months

In my classes, I strive to create an inclusive environment for all perspectives. That's partly why I avoid public statements outside my lane. But as a member of the Harvard community, I feel compelled to address the statement from 36 Harvard student groups

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3 years

This paper with @benweidmann is now forthcoming in Econometrica! @ecmaEditors . Preprint here: , and see below for original tweetstorm. Happily the paper has not changed too much...

David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

4 years

New (non-COVID) working paper alert! “Team Players: How Social Skills Improve Group Performance” 1/x

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@ProfDavidDeming

3 years

Congratulations to my brilliant colleague @MarcellaAlsan on winning a MacArthur "genius" fellowship!

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@ProfDavidDeming

3 years

@Kennedy_School I gave a revise and resubmit to 6 percent of the papers I handled. So far, every single one of them has made it to publication. There are some fantastic papers in there! I also ended up rejecting some pretty fantastic papers. I won’t miss that. 6/X

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

1 year

This is just horrible. Had such great convos with @Rodprime while I was coding furiously at TSP on our school accountability project @eduwonkette_jen @SarahCohodes . Such a funny, brilliant guy. I'm so sad. Rodney, you burned bright and left us way too soon. RIP my friend.

Prof Dynarski

@dynarski

1 year

Rodney Andrews has died I can’t believe I am saying these words He was a gift to the world and our profession

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@ProfDavidDeming

5 years

We are hiring – please spread the word! The Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy is seeking a Project Coordinator / Research Assistant. Here is the link to apply: 1/x

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

6 years

I don’t care who the authors are, I just want to publish the best papers I can. That is part selection but also part treatment - so I try to make them better along the way! END 17/17

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

6 years

In principle, racial wage gaps could exist even if employers are race-neutral, because black workers might have accumulated fewer skills due to “pre-market” discrimination (poorly funded schools, polluted drinking water, family stress etc..) 9/x

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@ProfDavidDeming

4 years

I'm back, Twitter! Lots to say after a summer hiatus, but first priority is to congratulate @KiraboJackson on winning the Kershaw award @APPAM_DC ! So well deserved. Honored to be in your company, my friend! 1/2

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@ProfDavidDeming

4 years

TL;DR – community colleges should be the centerpiece of our economic recovery strategy. They can be local job creation hubs and pave pathways to economic opportunity - in partnership with employers and ed-tech innovators. 12/x

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@ProfDavidDeming

6 years

4) Racial wage gaps exist everywhere, even within narrowly defined geographic areas. In 99% of the neighborhoods in the US, black boys will earn less as adults than the white boys who grew up next to them. 8/x

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@ProfDavidDeming

2 years

The Harvard Skills Lab is hiring for a Product Manager to work with @Weidmann and me + a small team of software developers to design and develop “soft skills” assessment tools. See the full job ad here . Please RT + send to your network, and/or apply! 1/x

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@ProfDavidDeming

3 years

@Kennedy_School @c_r_walt thanks to @AlexMasPton and @Ben_Olken for your leadership, and @nealemahoney , @seema_econ , @ikuziemko and @landais_camille for teaching me so much about econ through your own great editorial service. the colleagues were BY FAR the best part! 15/15

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5 years

Least favorite part of the job – rejecting great papers, especially from junior faculty who are trying make their way in this brutal profession. I take no pleasure in it. 10/x

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@ProfDavidDeming

9 months

Today I released a new paper called “Allocative Skill” with Andrew Caplin, @leth_soren , and @weidmann . We introduce a new way to measure the quality of economic decision-making called the Assignment Game. Play the game here! 1/x

About Harvard Skills Lab: Advancing Higher-Order Skill Measurement & Research

The Skills Lab is focused on researching and building performance based assessment tools to measure the higher-order skills that are especially relevant in labor market contexts.

www.skillslab.dev

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@ProfDavidDeming

5 years

They find big impacts of Pell aid on freshmen just beginning at 4 year colleges. An extra $1k of financial aid increases graduation within 7 years by about 15 percent. They also find earnings gains of 7-10 percent using TX admin data 3/x

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6 years

She gave the paper an R&R but listed 3+ pages of detailed comments (points 1-17, with multiple sub-bullets!) with advice on how to write and frame it better and which referee comments I should listen to and which I should ignore 15/x

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@ProfDavidDeming

6 years

As the kids are saying these days....BOOM!

John N.Friedman

@John_N_Friedman

6 years

Its official - Raj Chetty is coming back to Harvard! With the band back together on the East Coast, look out out for some exciting new work from the Equality of Opportunity Project coming soon...

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6 years

I’m a proud alum of @GoldmanSchool #8foldpath

Goldman School

@GoldmanSchool

6 years

Congrats to @Kennedy_School Professor @ProfDavidDeming (MPP '05) who was awarded the David N. Kershaw Award by @APPAM_DC for his contributions to the field of public policy analysis and management.

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4 years

Second, @dynarski is coming back to @hgse ! I know I'm late to the party, but that doesn't mean I can't celebrate. Such great news from two good friends!

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3 years

@Kennedy_School 3) I formed a prior on the paper and then selected referees that would help me update my prior. If the key issue was methodological, I’d pick an applied metrics referee. If it was about country context, a country expert. And so on….10/X

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For better or worse, I try to be clear and decisive. I will definitely get it wrong sometimes. But I can give authors timely and clear feedback to smooth the publication process. I do enjoy the job, but I will probably also enjoy the time back when my term ends :) 11/11

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@Kennedy_School I handled 551 manuscripts (this includes some still pending, which I will continue to shepherd until they reach a final decision). That’s about 160 per year, or 1 every 2.3 days. I tried to be fast because it takes as much time to do it sooner as it does to do it later 2/X

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4 years

Last week I had a “class reunion” via Zoom of my fall course “The Causes and Consequences of Inequality” – syllabus here . We talked about the economic and social consequences of Coronavirus 1/N

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I also have a taste for really interesting descriptive work and/or papers that take the “old school” approach of attributing rich patterns in data to models (either explicit or implicit) - e.g. see my recent paper on social skills 10/x

The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market*

Abstract. The labor market increasingly rewards social skills. Between 1980 and 2012, jobs requiring high levels of social interaction grew by nearly 12 pe

academic.oup.com

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@abacherhicks @BillingsEcon Last thing – @abacherhicks deserves most of the credit here, and was the driving force for this project from start to finish. If you like what you see, hire him! He is an HKS PhD student on the job market this year…. 12/12

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@ProfDavidDeming

6 years

I use this fantastic website for my course on inequality (syllabus link ) - keep up the great work!

INET Oxford

@INETOxford

6 years

Huge congratulations to @MaxCRoser and the @OurWorldInData team on winning nearly $1.8m from @gatesfoundation to continue their amazing work. Read all about it here!

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@Kennedy_School @c_r_walt is taking over for me, which is going to be an improvement :) Chris is a great researcher and has superb judgment 14/x

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STEM majors earn more right out of college, but liberal arts majors gradually catch up and by age 40 there is little or no earnings difference between them 2/5

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Today on Forked Lightning: Do colleges have a free speech problem? What a study of social norms in Saudi Arabia teaches us about free expression on campus X throttles links, so hopefully you know where to go but if not just check out my website - it's there!

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So in the AK context, we could expect a decline in enrollment-years of about 12 percent, and then falling degree completion rates of around 15-20 percent for 4 year degrees – a massive blow to the state @dynarski @dylanmatt @JMitchellWSJ @paulfain @jscottclayton @jdmatsudaira 4/4

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The second reason is that a liberal arts education teaches valuable soft skills like critical thinking that are broad, transferable and “future-proof”. These skills are learned best through dialogue and deep engagement with material, even if it abstract 4/5

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These low mobility rates are the primary cause of slow convergence in black/white income gaps.3/x

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. @JakeVigdor I am confused about the implications you draw from this. The increase in R2 from Col 2 to 4 just shows how important HS FE are. It implies that the GPA-maximizing policy would weight high-income high schools very heavily. that seems bad!

Jake Vigdor

@JakeVigdor

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@DLeonhardt @OppInsights And sure, the SAT can occasionally promote equity. But if it’s an equity agenda you want to pursue, standardized tests can’t hold a candle to: 1) Ending legacy admissions 2) Ending donor child admissions 3) Ending most athlete recruitment

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@abacherhicks @BillingsEcon Overall, suspending middle schoolers at a higher-than-normal rate appears to harm kids substantially, especially African-American boys. So this evidence supports recent calls to limit discipline in schools, such as the law just passed in California (SB 419) 11/X

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Excited to present our paper on economic decision-making at the NBER summer institute: Here's the paper (NBER): and ungated:

Economic Decision-Making Skill Predicts Income in Two Countries

www.nber.org

David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

9 months

Today I released a new paper called “Allocative Skill” with Andrew Caplin, @leth_soren , and @weidmann . We introduce a new way to measure the quality of economic decision-making called the Assignment Game. Play the game here! 1/x

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

3 years

@Kennedy_School 2) I wore down and started giving less feedback than I should to rejected manuscripts. It didn’t change any decisions, but when pressed for time I focused less on feedback and helping authors improve the paper. I’d rather cut feedback than be too slow, but better to do both. 12/x

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

6 years

The primary question I have in mind when reading a paper is “what have I learned from reading this that I did not already know?” This is a heuristic that helps me weigh impact/contribution vs. methodological strength 6/x

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

4 years

For my faculty colleagues – or others with a platform – here is one way you can make a difference. Alums of my classes this year (my freshman seminar, and SUP-206 / Econ 1084, “The Causes and Consequences of Inequality”) decided to donate to @ColorOfChange 1/4

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

4 years

My latest @nytimesbusiness Why the risk of AI isn’t about technology, but about politics and economic fairness. We need a new social contract to make the jobs of the future *good* jobs, so we can all share the bounty of technological progress. Enjoy!

The Robots Are Coming. Prepare for Trouble. (Published 2020)

Artificial intelligence won’t eliminate every retail job, an economist says, but the future could be grim unless we start planning now.

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

4 years

At the Malcolm Wiener Center, we are supporting 18 undergraduate RA positions, many for low-income/first gen students who lost jobs due to campus closure. One of many ways that @Kennedy_School is stepping up during the COVID-19 crisis ( @HarvardMWC @thecrimson @InequalityHKS )

The Harvard Crimson

@thecrimson

4 years

As students seek out remote work opportunities, Harvard College Dean of Administration and Finance Sheila C. Thimba says the College can press, but not force, campus employers to offer jobs to undergraduates.

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

3 years

@Ben_Olken @c_r_walt @AEAjournals @Kennedy_School It's been an amazing 3.5 year run at AEJ: Applied, thanks to @Ben_Olken and the rest of the team! As Ben said I'll be starting as Academic Dean @Kennedy_School on July 1. I'm sad to leave but I know that with @c_r_walt the AEJ and econ of ed is in good hands!

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

11 months

Here is a link to the NYT story . Here is the short non-technical summary

Study of Elite College Admissions Data Suggests Being Very Rich Is Its Own Qualification

Extraordinarily detailed data shows how elite colleges prefer the richest students, even among students with similar test scores.

www.nytimes.com

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

11 months

This was so fun @DKThomp , thanks for having me on the podcast!

The Ringer

@ringer

11 months

A recent study shows that Ivy League schools and other selective colleges are admitting students from affluent families at a much higher rate. @ProfDavidDeming talks to @DKThomp about his latest research.

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

10 months

This conference - in Cambridge MA on 11/30 and 12/1 - is a great chance to present your exciting new work on economic mobility. Link below - please submit!(deadline 8/18) @OppInsights

2023 Conference on Economic Mobility | Opportunity Insights

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Opportunity Insights

@OppInsights

10 months

Mobility scholars! Submit your paper to our second annual conference on economic opportunity by August 18! Will include a panel discussion on how colleges and universities shape economic opportunity.

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

6 years

Well-written papers “sell” the importance of the work by placing their results in proper perspective. We try to be scientists, yes, but we are also storytellers 11/x

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David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

7 years

Roses are red And sometimes they're black Manufacturing jobs are not coming back.

Will Manufacturing Jobs Come Back? | Econofact

The claim that the President can bring back manufacturing jobs ignores an important reality – as an industry, U.S. manufacturing is booming.

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